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B Science (Hons), PhD

Senior Research Fellow, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Dr Brendan Ebner

Research expertise

• Freshwater fish conservation and ecology
• Sustainable use of freshwater resources
• Fish movement, habitat use and environmental flows
• Feeding ecology of fishes
• Underwater observation and fish behaviour
• People and charismatic freshwater fauna

Publications

• Ebner, B.C., Thiem, J.D. (In press) Monitoring by telemetry reveals differences in movement and survival following hatchery or wild-rearing of an endangered fish. Marine and Freshwater Research.
• Ryan, K.A., Ebner, B.C., Norris, R.H. (In press) Radio-tracking interval effects on the accuracy of diel scale crayfish movement variables. Freshwater Crayfish, 16.
• Ebner, B.C., Thiem, J.D., Gilligan, D.M., Lintermans, M., Wooden, I.J., Linke, S. (In press) Estimating species richness and catch per unit effort from boat electro-fishing in a lowland river in temperate Australia . Austral Ecology.
• Ebner, B., Clear, R., Godschalx, S., Beitzel, M. (Online first) In-stream behaviour of threatened fishes and their food organisms based on remote video monitoring. Aquatic Ecology.
• Thiem, J.D., Ebner, B.C., Broadhurst, B.T. (2008) Diel activity of the endangered trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis) in the Murrumbidgee River. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 129, 167-173.
• Ebner, B.C., Thiem, J.D., Lintermans, M. (2007) Fate of 2 year-old, hatchery-reared trout cod Maccullochella macquariensis (Percichthyidae) stocked into two upland rivers. Journal of Fish Biology, 71, 182-199.
• Ebner, B., Broadhurst, B., Lintermans, M., Jekabsons, M. (2007) A possible false negative: lack of evidence for trout predation on a remnant population of the endangered Macquarie perch, Macquaria australasica, in Cotter Reservoir, Australia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 41, 231-237.
• Broadhurst, B., Ebner, B. (2007) An improved technique for small-scale radio-tracking of crayfish and benthic fishes in upland streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 136, 423-427.
• Ebner, B. (2006) Murray cod an apex predator in the Murray River, Australia. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 15, 510-520.
• Ebner, B., Raadik, T., Ivantsoff, W. (2003) Threatened fishes of the world: Craterocephalus fluviatilis McCulloch, 1913 (Atherinidae). Enviromental Biology of Fishes, 68, 390.
• Scholz, O., Gawne, B., Ebner, B., Ellis, I. (2002) The effects of drying and re-flooding on nutrient availability in ephemeral deflation basin lakes in western New South Wales, Australia. River Research and Applications, 18, 185-196.